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Let’s make sure the settlement money goes into opioid prevention and treatment (and doesn’t disappear into Pennsylvania’s General Fund to cover ordinary expenditures). post-gazette.com/business/healt…

NY City opens first legal supervised injection sites in the U.S. During the first day of operation at the two Manhattan facilities, staff reversed two overdoses! nytimes.com/2021/11/30/nyr…

Big week for our team with another study out in @annalsofem. This one describes the impact of several years of work from many people in @pennmedicine EDs to increase evidence-based treatment for patients with opioid use disorder annemergmed.com/article/S0196-…

Check out this great op-ed from friend and colleague @shoshiaronowitz. Important messaging around the overdose crisis. Media take note! Penn LDI Penn Nursing medpagetoday.com/opinion/second…

In a The Philadelphia Inquirer op-ed, LDI Fellows Rebecca Arden Harris, Rachel French, PhD, RN, @shoshiaronowitz, & @DSMandell call on Pennsylvania to stop treating overdose deaths as homicides through a criminal charge called 'drug delivery resulting in death'. inquirer.com/opinion/commen…

“The magnitude of the drug overdose crisis demands out-of-the-box thinking & willingness to jettison old, unhelpful, and unsupported assumptions about what treatment & recovery need to look like,” NIDAnews Director Dr. Nora Volkow writes in Health Affairs Forefront. 🧵[1/2]

Check out this new study from LDI Fellows Maggie Lowenstein, M. Kit Delgado, MD, MS, and Jeanmarie Perrone MD.⤵️

A Senate bill would establish a federal excise tax on prescription opioids and use block-grants to distribute revenue to expand access to treatment. In JAMA Health Forum, Rebecca Arden Harris, MD MSc, @DSMandell & Robert Gross say that's unworkable in its current form. jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-…

Our new study adds to the body of work done by @honoraenglander, @zoeweinstein, @drsarahwakemen @DrMelissaWeimer showing #addiction medicine consult services are important tools to improve the health of people with substance use disorders. AMCS teams are #lifesavinginterventions